The Newark Advocate from Newark, Ohio • 12

a a a a a a a a 12 Newark (0.) Advocate July 20, 1972 Dust, dirt and filth hangs over WilkesAgnes' victim retains the appearance of WILKES BARRE, a. (AP) with a The dust, the dirt, the filth the are still everywhere. by the Walk in any low-lying area of In this hilly city of 60,000, and you dential get a choice depending on Drive, whether it's dry or raining house between becoming engulfed street, with dust that mixes with sweat ters. and pastes clothing to skin, or their being slopped with mud. innards A full month after one-third The of this eastern Pennsylvania sy city was inundated by floodwa- Square, terh from tropical storm Agnes, tion the community retains the ap- Army pearance of a disaster area.

retail Lawns, sidewalks, shrubs, round walls and just about anything newsstand else left standing are blanketed have coat of tannish grime, boards, rubble and slime adorn floor bedroom on the flood shelters are accommodating residue of 20-foot flooding the curbsides. night of June 23. about 2,300 persons, with perSusquehanna River. No doubt about it, Wilkes- You see it as well on scores haps double that number staythe city's well-to-do resi- Barre looks awful. of homes and stores bearing ing with relatives.

section along Riverside signs that vow, "Rebuild We ELECTRICITY--Restored to scattered. One And yet amidst all this, a Will." about 25 per cent of flooded homes lie sits in the middle of a bustling spirit un- Nicholas H. Souchik, homes. of renewal is swept there by the wa- deniably in evidence. Luzerne County's executive di- TELEPHONES--About Indeed, A lot of the city's dirt, for ex- 75 per Others tilt precariously, rector for civil defense, says cent back.

foundations and plumbing ample, is encrusted on the the flood-stricken, sections of exposed. arms and faces people who WATER-Some reports of have determinedly shoveled the city are now 70 to 75 per low pressure, but otherwise not hub of downtown, a gras- cent back onto their feet. diagonal known as Public four to six inches of mud from a major problem. is filled with informa- their floors. "Not as nice as before," he SEWAGE TREATMENTtrailers and Salvation You see the spirit of renewal remarks, "but we're recov- Still completely out.

Sewage is food trucks. Of some 50 in the eyes of people like 81- ering." going straight into the river. establishments that sur- -old William Jayne, hosing Souchik gave this status re- But tons of mud have been rethe square, just two a down an old American flag that port: moved from the city's treatand a drug store was defaced when three feet of HOMELESS--The biggest ment plant, and it should be opreopened. Heaps of water lapped into his second problem. Temporary Red Cross erable in another 30 days.

Giant step taken three years ago Armstrong cel celebrates moon walk anni anniversary WAPAKONETA, Ohio were to be on hand today -Dignitaries including Tricia for the opening of the ArmNixon Cox, daughter of the strong Air and Space Museum. President, and Gov. John Gilli- But the star attraction was SHARFF'S PENNEY SALE Continues at the main store downtown FRIDAY 10:00 until 8:30 SATURDAY 10:00 until 5:00 DRESS RAINCOATS SPORTSWEAR Buy one item of regular price and select any other item up same price and pay only one cent. Limited to sale items. All sales Final No Layaways or approvals.

central sphere 60 feet in diame-strong ever 1 flew, a section of a Armstrong's backup moon ter. rocket, a Model plane flight space suit. Inside the sphere, visitors are created the The museum was commisby Wright brothers, taken on a simulated space sioned in 1969 by then-Gov. trip. the original Gemini VIII space James A.

Rhodes and financed Among things on display are capsule piloted by Armstrong half by the state and a model of the first plane and David R. Scott in 1966, and public subscription. George voting pro-labor today CUSTER, S.D. (A) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, moving to offset the impact of his rejection by top labor leaders, flies to Washington today to cast a pro-labor Senate vote. He will also designate former National Chairman Lawrence F.

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Mrs. Cox, representing the President and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Armstrong were to put on a display one of the rocks brought back from the moon by the Apollo 11 commander. Visitors to the $1 million, 000-square-foot museum will find a vast collection of mementoes of air and space feats by Ohioans, including, in addition to Armstrong, former Astronaut John Glenn of New Concord, the first American to orbit the earth, and the famous Wright brothers of Dayton. The building itself is situated on a rolling green incline, is partly covered by a huge ear WILLIAM JAYNE, 81-year-old resident of Wilkes Barre, pauses to survey his property while hosing down his front porch. The American flag was one of the few belongings he salvaged after water rose three feet into the second floor of his home during the flood night of June New hitch threatens chess match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP), The Icelandic Chess Federation rejected a list of 13 demands from Bobby Fischer today, raising the possibility of a new hitch in the world chess championship match.

Fischer and Boris Spassky, the Soviet world champion, were scheduled to play their fifth game at 1 p.m, EDT today. The score is now in Spassky's favor, the fourth match Tuesday having ended in a draw. Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the host federation, said Fischer delivered his list of new demands Wednesday night. He said they had "not been met." Thorarinsson said the American challenger, who is a late riser, was still asleep and had not been told of the refusal. The Rev.

William Lombardy, Fischer's second, said he could not say whether Thorarinsson's refusal would jeopardize the game today. Although many of Fischer's demands were trivial, such as exclusive use of the swimming pool at his hotel, he also asked for "written authority to have film cameras removed from the playing hall" if they disLothar Schmid, the West German referee of the match, said the organizers of the match would do all they could to meet the American's demands. Friends Are A Nice Thing To Member INTERNATIONAL Nagon. GOOD BUSINESS NEIGHBOR THIS EMBLEM IS THE SIGN OF GOOD BUSINESS AND GOOD FRIENDS. In Hebron, and Harbor Hills Lake, MRS.

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